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Masters free-lancer arrested in robbery

Posted: Wednesday, April 04, 2007

AUGUSTA - A freelance editor from Alabama who was hired by CBS to help cover the Masters golf tournament this week was one of three people arrested Monday and charged in a bank robbery, authorities said.

A man wearing a white T-shirt, blue jeans and an Atlanta Braves sun visor entered a Wachovia bank branch on Gordon Highway shortly after 9 a.m. and handed a teller a note demanding money, said Sgt. Richard Roundtree of the Richmond County Sheriff's Department.

After an anonymous tip, investigators arrested Michael Alan Crane, 31, at a nearby hotel and found clothing stained with red dye in his room, along with an undisclosed amount of money, Roundtree said.

Two alleged accomplices, Jawone Reginald Bennett, 31, and Shelby Lee Wills, 28, were arrested a short time later.